Questions of production and manufacturing companies regarding IoT and IIoT are addressed daily at the IT2Industry Forum panel discussions. Main topics will be IoT platforms, AI for smart factories and new business models –

Work 4.0 is not only a matter of creating more flexible ways of working, technical know-how and big data competences. Marc Zenker and Georg von der Ropp specify what potential digitalization, IIoT and industry 4.0 offer for innovative business models –

The digitization has brought its own pitfalls to the equation. As the pilot installation of the industrial anomaly detection Rhebo Industrial Protector shows, it’s not only security issues automation companies should worry about.

Manufacturing robots have to operate reliably and safely. Michael Stiller showcases how Fraunhofer ESK is working on ways to analyze and monitor open source robot operating systems in real-time in order to optimize production system robots.

Industrial companies working on IoT solutions build upon an existing IoT platform, as it provides up to 90 percent of building blocks as connectivity, data and device management, to save costs, accelerate time-to-market, avoid issues. Jan Rodig, tresmo, cuts through the IoT platform jungle –